Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Access your Google Chrome bookmarks from the right-click context men

Last week we shared a Google Chrome extension with you that adds installed apps to your right-click context menu. It's a very welcome enhancement, since you normally need to hit Chrome's new tab page to launch a Chrome Web app. You know what would fit nicely right below apps in Chrome's right-click menu? Access to your bookmarks, of course!

And as you can see in the screenshot, there's an extension that does a nice job of integrating the contents of your bookmarks bar. Install "Bookmark list in context menu" and you've got two-click access to your favorite sites. It's a nice alternative to the horizontal bookmark bar, especially on smaller screens where every pixel counts. As its author points out, it's also a handy way to open bookmarks in full screen mode -- when there are no toolbars to click on.

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